Jennifer Greeson
Associate Professor
431 Bryan Hall
Office Hours: MW 12-2 p.m.
Class Schedule: MW 8-10:45 a.m.
Specialties:
American, Early American
Degrees
Ph.D. Yale (American Studies), 2001
M.A., M.Phil. Yale, 1997
B.A. Duke, 1994
M.A., M.Phil. Yale, 1997
B.A. Duke, 1994
Books
- Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Harvard University Press, 2010)
- Ed., with Robert B. Stepto, Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Stories (W.W. Norton, 2011)
- Ed., with Scott Romine, Keywords for Southern Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2016)
Selected Articles
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"American Enlightenment: The New World and Modern Western Thought." American Literary History 25:1 (Spring 2013): 6-17.
- "The Prehistory of Possessive Individualism." PMLA, October 2012.
- “Imagining the South.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel, ed. Leonard Cassuto, Claire Eby, and Benjamin Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 236-251.
- “Expropriating The Great South and Exporting ‘Local Color’: Global and Hemispheric Imaginaries of the First Reconstruction.” Hemisphere and Nation, ed. Caroline Levander and Robert Levine (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2008), pp. 116-39. (Earlier version in American Literary History 18:3:
496-520). - “’Ruse It Well”: Reading, Power, and the Seduction Plot in The Curse of Caste.” African American Review 40:4 (Winter 2006—40th-anniversary special issue on the 19th-century writer Julia C. Collins): 769-778.
- “Colonial Planter to ‘American Farmer’: South, Nation and Decolonization in Crèvecoeur’s Letters.” Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies, ed. Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts (New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2003), 160-186. (Earlier version in Yale Journal of Criticism 12:4: 209-48). - “Wharton’s Manuscript Outlines of The Age of Innocence: Three Versions.” Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Candace J. Waid (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 412-419.
- “Mysteries and Miseries of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”
American Literature 73:2 (June 2001; special issue: “Violence, the Body, and ‘the South’”): 277-309. - “The Historian as Literary Critic: Gail Bederman’s Manliness and Civilization.” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture (Swansea, Wales)5:3 (Autumn 1998): 274-79.
Selected Awards
- C. Hugh Holman Award, 2010
- Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2006-2008
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (designated “We the People” project), 2006
- Mellon Fellowship, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2001-2003
- Mrs. Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1995-1999